THE X-FILES SPIN-OFF SPECIAL (original) (raw)
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THE X-FILES SPIN-OFF SPECIAL 
As has been widely reported throughout the media over the last few weeks, it�s almost certain that David Duchovny will not sign on for another season of The X-Files. Aside from the fact that the show is unlikely to prosper without him, creator/producer Chris Carter, and Gillian Anderson have also gone on record in the last week to express their doubts about continuing with the show. Suffice to say, this leaves X-Files fans around the world feeling distraught and helpless at the thought of being left to drift without the rudder which steers them through life. Bubblegun says this: All is not lost! The X-Files can thrive and prosper, its format flexible enough to be bent in any one of several directions. Observe now, as we present Bubblegun�s proposals for four potential X-Files spin-offs. Rest assured, we shall be forwarding these excellent ideas to the programme makers at 20th Century Fox... PROPOSAL #1 - THE LONE GUNMEN Follows the adventures of The Lone Gunmen, the three geek conspiracy theorists who Mulder has often turned to for help. They run a paranoid newspaper entitled The Magic Bullet, and their investigations would provide an excellent basis for an ongoing series. Already The Lone Gunmen have had two standalone X-Files episodes to themselves, proving their characters strong enough to support a show of their own. We suggest a story arc with the Gunmen investigating the mysterious disappearances of Mulder and Scully - who could themselves be found just in time for the second X-Files movie. PROPOSAL # 2 - KRYCHEK AND COMPANY Upon moving to a cramped downtown apartment in New York, the enigmatic Alex Krychek, right-hand, one-armed henchman for a race of would-be alien invaders, encounters a bizarre assortment of characters - with hilarious consequences! The half-hour feel-good situation comedy show would concern itself with Krychek and his associates; Brian the half-human government lackey who lives in the apartment down the hall, �Fox� the paranoid conspiracy theorist from the apartment across the hall who wants to know just what Alex �is up to in there�, Mr Well-Manicured-Man - Krychek�s straight-laced employer, and Maria - Krychek�s scatterbrained would-be girlfriend with crazy plans for saving the world from alien domination. Each show would be book-ended by a monologue from Alex, as he muses on life�s many quirks. PROPOSAL #3 - A.D. SKINNER A hilarious animated series, in which the Assistant Director Skinner, sick of the killing and the double-talk, leaves his post in the FBI for a new job - as principal of Springfield Elementary School! Skinner is forced to move back home to live with his mother, but he hadn�t reckoned on a certain little boy called Bart Simpson! The barrel-chested miserablist works hard at his job, but a combination of Bart�s misbehaviour, and his own incompetence, gets him into regular trouble with Superintendent Chalmers - with hilarious consequences! �Skiiinerrrrr!!!� PROPOSAL #4 - CANCERMAN & SON Having left the global organisation bent on dominating the world with its plans to pervert the human genome with an alien DNA virus, the mysterious Cancerman buys himself a scrapyard where he can earn a bit of dough while he writes the great American novel. When his good-for-nothing son, Agent Spender (Jimmy Nail), comes a-knocking, Cancerman feels obliged to give him a bed, but only on the condition that he help out in the scrapyard - with hilarious consequences! Spender�s love of loud rock music and partying on down is a constant source of interruption for his stressed father. In the first episode, Cancerman hires a hitman to shoot his son in the back of the head - with further hilarious consequences etc... | |